OBSESSIVE love is the intoxicating theme running through Lousie O'Neill's absorbing third novel and, although just released, the award-winning Irish author says she has been astonished by the early response from readers.

Noise Annoys favourites The Bonnevilles release their new album Dirty Photographs today. To celebrate, guitar man/hollerer Andy McGibbon Jr gets quizzed about the conception and execution of the garage punk bluesers' fabulous fourth record, the Lurgan/Banbridge duo's second for top US label Alive Naturalsound

HAVING packed out The Limelight in Belfast last year with their double-headline show, 2Tone legends The Beat and The Selecter are back for another visit tonight, this time at the larger Mandela Hall at QUBSU.

THE estate of To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee has filed suit over an upcoming Broadway adaptation of the novel, arguing that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's script wrongly alters Atticus Finch and other characters from the book.

A GRITTY new play marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights campaign in Belfast is set to open in the Lyric Theatre this month, leaving no tricky topic unexplored according to one of the actresses among a talented 17-strong cast.